Stature Quotes

145 quotes by 130 authors

My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues… — Herman Cain
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its… — Thomas Carlyle
When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I believe to be… — Donald Bradman
In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being… — Adolf Hitler
Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature,… — Steve Rushin
The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men. — Michel de Montaigne
Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And… — Thomas Jefferson
The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow… — Carl Jung
Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he… — Joseph Campbell
Space is the stature of God. — Joseph Joubert
I believe that such constant realization ennobles one automatically. One's stature is greater, one's step more elastic, one's aura more powerful; and it makes other… — Walter Russell
It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will… — Ayn Rand
If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent… — William Wardell
If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for… — Elbert Hubbard
No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it… — Woodrow Wilson
The rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power, and thus dependent completely upon the moral… — Jeff Cooper
Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I've talked with people of stature-of military and government credentials and position-and heard their stories, and their desire to tell their stories openly to the… — Edgar Mitchell
One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone… — Maria Menounos
Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I reach the expectations I have… — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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